Salutations!
I'll try not to make heat jokes, since I'm sure you've noticed it's
summer. Do you have a good novel to read by the pool and pocket
histories to take on your travels? 'Tis the season of house cleaning
too, and I assure you there are new offerings here at Loganberry daily,
although it's hard to sum them up in an email....
Exciting
recent acquisitions
- new reprints of the 1949 Wonder Book classic The Surprise
Doll
- Americans illustrated by iconic Charles Dana
Gibson, 1900
- a folio sized art book of Roger Tory Peterson's Birds,
signed
- Cleveland: 1930-2000 -- part two of the Arcadia
photographic history by Thea Becker
- a vintage illustrated edition of Elizabeth and Her German
Garden
- The Norman Rockwell Album, signed by the man himself
- various new and old editions of Little Black Sambo
- Baseball histories, biographies, picture books, and
folklore
- the third Unshelved comic treasury by Bill Barnes
and Gary Ambaum
- vintage 1940s science, math, business, and even etiquette
texts, very amusing
- a signed second printing of Something in Common by Langston
Hughes
Local Author Book
Signings
Carol
Poh Miller, introduction
Our Native Trees and How to Identify Them
by Harriet L. Keeler, 1900
Saturday, July 23, 1:00-3:00pm
Our Native Trees and How to Identify Them,
written by Cleveland educator, feminist, and naturalist Harriet L.
Keeler
(1844–1921) and first published by Charles Scribner’s Sons in 1900, was
warmly received at a time when America was rapidly urbanizing and
public
interest in conservation and the establishment of parks was growing. In
her preface, Keeler explained that “the trees described . . . are those
indigenous to the region extending from the Atlantic Ocean to the Rocky
Mountains and from Canada to the northern boundaries of the southern
states;
together with a few well-known and naturalized foreign trees.”
Profusely
illustrated and with a biographical introduction by Carol Poh Miller
that
illuminates Keeler’s life and accomplishments, this facsimile edition
will
aid a new generation eager to identify and thus better appreciate what
they observe outdoors.
Kent State University Press, 2005, paperback, 574 pages,
$22.95
Kelly
Ferjutz
Windsong
Saturday, July 30, 1:00-3:00pm
Historical romance on the Great Lakes! On
Mackinac
Island, Michigan in the mid-1800's,whites and Indians lived in mutual
distrust...but
two people saw the promise of love in each other's eyes. Their cultures
were as different as night and day, but their hearts were as one—and
they
would defy tribe and family to embrace the blazing desire that bound
them
forever...
Forest Hill Publishing, 2005, paperback, $15
Stump
the Bookseller Selection of the month
I76:
Izzy
Okay...this book I read when I was about
10-11..in
the late 80's. I think it may have been written in the late 70's/early
80's. The book takes place in the 1920's and focuses around this
young girl (i want to say her name was Izzy...but I could be wrong). I
remember in the book she had an older sister who was a flapper, and
there
was some talk about prohibition. The girl used to play on the train
tracks
a lot, and I think she would bring a male friend with her. I remember
one
part of the book where they get caught on the tracks and the train
comes.
They're on a bridge so they climb under the tracks and hold on until
the
train goes by. This was one of my favorite books when I was a kid, I
remember
the cover was bright pink. I've been thinking about it a lot lately and
would love to read it again. Thank you so much!
Book Clubs
Girlfriends
Literary Society
Thursday,
June 9th, 7:00pm
All-Night Party: The Women of Bohemian Greenwich Village
and Harlem, 1913-1930
by Andrea Barnet
Book Club so enjoyed Andrea Barnet's history of the artists and writers
of NYC, that this month we've decided to read a biography of one of
those wild women featured. Your choice: read something about Mina
Loy, Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters,
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Margaret Anderson, Emma Goldman, Isadora
Duncan, Margaret Sanger, Gertrude Stein, etc., and tell us about her.
LitArts Progress
The Literary Arts room has made
great progress since its opening six months ago. Books fill the four
walls, and new rugs, tables, and chairs make the space cozy for
browsing, receptions, lectures, and special events. The floor needs
painting though, for consistency and warmth, and that Loganberry
trademark. I'm not exactly sure of the schedule, but July will be work
month. First, we have to move a small mountain of boxes, then clean
the floors, prime, paint, and glaze. If you want to help out, we'll be
working every
Thursday night in July, 6-9pm. I'll provide
pizza and drinks, and you can buy
anything at 50%
off and/or accumulate book credit. RSVPs are most helpful. Thanks.
Annex Gallery
Rick Santich: Panoramic
Perspectives
Friday, July 1st, 6-8pm: Opening Reception
Rick Santich is not only a fabulous
photographer, but he's been to some fabulous places, both near and
far. Come see the panoramas of Yosemite National Park. Cuyahoga Valley
National Park, Zion National Park, Bryce Canyon National Park, Blossom
Music Center, Nature Center at the Shaker Lakes, The Avenue at Tower
City Center, and the Cleveland Lakefront.
... and I hope to see you browsing at Loganberry soon!
peace,
Harriett
Loganberry Books
13015 Larchmere Boulevard; Shaker Heights,
OH 44120; 216.795.9800
Monday-Saturday 10am-6pm
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